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This forum is for discussions regarding all aspects of Motorola radio programming, including hardware, computers, installation and use of RSS/CPS, firmware upgrades, and troubleshooting. There are subforums for discussions of codeplugs, and also for software/firmware release notes and issues.

I've never had success getting this to work, like everyone else, I've had to create an XP VM in Windows 7, and run the CPS under that.

The unfortunate issue I've encountered is that XP does not have the proper drivers for the newer releases of USB, therefore flash upgrading radios that require a flashkey using the XP VM seems impossible. I've only been able to get it to work on older machines with older USB ports.

Seriously, everyone, pick up one of the zillion used WinXP 32-bit PC's on FleaBay ...they're like $50 at most and work just fine. Just make sure it has a serial port....and then get yourself a ribless cheapo programming cable from one of the other zillion sellers (they're like $15 at most) and you'll be set. The cables work just fine as long as you have a serial port. I've never bricked a radio with that setup.

There's 16-bit calls in the MTS2000 CPS, and that's a no-go on a 64-bit Windows Operating System. This was no big deal when most of the folks about there servicing /\/\ gear used 32-bit operating system (biggest being : Windows XP Professional)... now, not so much :-/

Long story short : You'll either need to run a 32-bit VM (if you want to stick with a 64-bit OS as your main OS), or wipe and install a 32-bit OS on your machine.

Talking with someone who deals with supporting legacy software on modern to the extreme (he gets to figure out the hard way what gets broken and attempts to find work arounds) he said the 16-bit calls in most radio programming software are are related to the access of the serial port.